Remote Learning Resources and Freebies
*Important Note: This resource list was curated during the COVID-19 pandemic when many companies offered free online resources for learning at home. These resources may no longer be free to use now that the pandemic is over.
Scholastic Learn at Home
Scholastic has created day by day eLearning lessons. By clicking on the picture to the left, you will be redirected to their website. Students are able to access the books used in the lessons by reading an e-book version or reading along with the video version of the story. For K-2, each lesson has a fiction and nonfiction book on a given topic and activities/puzzles to complete that go along with the texts. For 3-5, each lesson involves engaging articles and stories on topics with thought-provoking questions and extension activities.
Read, Wonder, and Learn!
Kate Messner, author of the Ranger in Time series among other children's books, has compiled a list of distance learning resources including read-aloud videos and videos about the writing process for use by students, teachers, and librarians. Many of these videos include writing activity prompts based on the read-alouds. Click on the picture to the left to learn more.
Bee-Bot Emulator
Looking for engaging ways for students to practice their letters, CVC words, numbers, shapes, colors, or coins? This is a virtual robot that students can code while practicing these skills. Click on the picture to the left to be redirected to the emulator.
Wilbooks
Wilbooks is giving free access to some of their ebooks. You can search through their books by grade or guided reading level. You should be able to send a link for students to access these books as well if you wish to use them for your eLearning lessons. Click on the picture to the left to be taken to the site where you can start browsing the collection!
Interactive Choice Board
This is a free document created by Kasey Bell and shared on Shakeuplearning.com. It is created to be used in Google Slides. As a teacher, you can add the instructions for the learning activities you want students to choose. They can choose the activities to create a bingo. They just click on the bingo square that they choose and it will take them directly to the slide that contains all of the instructions for that assignment. You can make your own copy to save in your Google Drive here. You can access Kasey's article about this resource here.